AWS now supports Zen Master, Zixi's orchestration solution

AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI) y AWS Elemental Link ya son operables con Zen Master, solución de telemetría y orquestación de vídeo en directo de Zixi.

Zen Master facilita la gestión de entradas y salidas para “cientos de flujos de vídeo” en directo en el entorno Zixi. Enabling automatic configuration features for network resources and distribution targets, this video management software allows its users to create new live channels and launch the necessary streams on the fly. On the other hand, Zen Master simplifies the management of broadcast flows using the most common protocols in the industry, whether the signal paths are point-to-point, one-to-many, multi-cloud or content distribution network (CDN). Likewise, Zixi's solution provides graphical alerts, email alerts and centralized remote access to local, remote and cloud-based devices from a single screen.

As detailed by Zixi itself, thanks to the recent agreement with AWS, Zen Master adds flexibility to AWS workflows, layered flow state visibility, flow analysis through audio-video-network parameters with reporting and automation routines that improve the “robust stability” of the service AWS Elemental MediaConnect, and monitoring AWS infrastructure using Amazon data CloudWatch.

The devices AWS Elemental Link are available as a source for AWS Elemental MediaLive and ship fully configured for AWS accounts, with Zen Master configuring MediaLive to send streams to MediaConnect. Los clientes de AWS pueden gestionar vídeo en directo de alta calidad sin comprimir mediante flujos CDI transferidos en tiempo real entre aplicaciones de software que se ejecutan en instancias de Amazon Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) para Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Disponibles directamente desde Zixi, así como en ventas públicas y privadas a través de AWS Marketplace, estos flujos incrementales de Zen Master dentro, fuera y alrededor de los nuevos entornos de la nube fomentan la interoperabilidad de los proveedores de software y hardware en su entorno de producción, con un gran ancho de banda y una baja latencia de extremo a extremo.

Un servicio mejorado

Greg Truax, head of live video services at AWS Elemental, welcomes this agreement and considers the alliance between AWS and Zixi as "natural": "Zen Master reduces the complexity of live streaming workflows with a set of virtual tools to configure, orchestrate and monitor the delivery of live video at the individual channel and device level, or across an entire video content creation and distribution enterprise. With the Zen Master SaaS offering running on AWS services, it was natural to expand our collaboration with Zixi to our mutual clients.”

From the other side, John Wastcoat, SVP of alliances and marketing at Zixi, is also pleased with the integration: "Zixi has had a long history with AWS, which began with an API integration with AWS Elemental Live many years ago and continued with work for AWS Elemental MediaConnect. We are delighted to offer our customers the integration of the Link API and CDI in Zen Master, thus offering an even more powerful user experience."